Bible Commentaries

Genesis 21:33 — que Virgilio habla tanto en el sexto libro del Eneis, y sin la cual, dice, nadie podría retornar de las regiones infernales, (ver línea 126,) parece una alusión al muérdago , como él mismo insinúa claramente al compararlo con esa planta, línea 205, c. Consulte Parkhurst , bajo la palabra אשל eshel . En las primeras edades del mundo, la adoración de Dios era sumamente simple; no había templos ni edificios cubiertos de ningún tipo; un altar , a veces era solo una piedra , a veces varias,

Genesis 31:55 — Verso Génesis 31:55. Besó a sus hijos y sus hijas... Es decir, su nietos , los once hijos de Jacob con su hermana Dinah, y sus madres Lea y Raquel . A todos estos los llama sus hijos , Génesis 31:43. Y los bendijo - oró de todo corazón por su prosperidad, aunque

Genesis 49:33 — the twelfth. General Vallancy has endeavoured, in his Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis, vol. vi., part. ii., p. 343, to trace out the analogy between the twelve sons of Jacob and the twelve signs of the Zodiac, which Dr. Hales (Analysis, vol. ii., p. 165) has altered a little, and placed in a form in which it becomes more generally applicable. As this scheme is curious, many readers who may not have the opportunity of consulting the above works will be pleased to find it here. That there is an allusion

1 Kings 17:24 — signify ravens, we shall find any interpretation on this ground to be clogged with difficulties. I need mention but a few. The raven is an unclean bird, And these ye shall have in abomination among the fowls - every raven after his kind; Leviticus 11:13-15; that is, every species of this genus shall be considered by you unclean and abominable. Is it therefore likely that God would employ this most unclean bird to feed his prophet? Besides, where could the ravens get any flesh that was not unclean? Carrion

Psalms 60:1 — PSALM LX The psalmist complains of the desolation which had fallen on the land; prays for deliverance, 1-5; and promises himself victory over Shechem, Succoth, Gilead, Ephraim, Moab, Idumea, and the Philistines, by the special help and assistance of God, 6-12. NOTES ON PSALM LXThe title, "To the chief Musician upon the hexachord, or lily of the testimony,

Leviticus overview — the history of what passed during the eight days of the consecration of Aaron and his sons, though Archbishop Usher supposes that it comprises the history of the transactions of a whole month, viz., from April 21 to May 21, of the year of the world 2514, which answers to the first month of the second year after the departure from Egypt. As there are no data by which any chronological arrangement of the facts mentioned in it can be made, it would be useless to encumber the page with conjectures which,

Isaiah 53:8 — Verse Isaiah 53:8. And who shall declare his generation - "And his manner of life who would declare"] A learned friend has communicated to me the following passages from the Mishna, and the Gemara of Babylon, as leading to a satisfactory explication of this difficult

Numbers 22:6 — sorcery or divination. It was supposed that prophets and sorcerers had a power to curse persons and places so as to confound all their designs, frustrate their counsels, enervate their strength, and fill them with fear, terror, and dismay. See Genesis 9:25; Psalms 109:6; Psalms 109:20; Joshua 6:26; Jeremiah 17:5-6.Macrobius has a whole chapter De carmine quo evocari solebant dii tutelares, et aut urbes, aut exercitus devoveri. "Of the incantations which were used to induce the tutelary gods to forsake

Matthew 16:1 — CHAPTER XVI. The Pharisees insidiously require our Lord to give them a sign, 1. They are severely rebuked for their hypocrisy and wickedness, 2-5. The disciples are cautioned to beware of them and their destructive doctrine, 6-12. The different opinions formed by the people of Christ, 13, 14. Peter's confession, and our Lord's discourse on it, 15-20. He foretells his sufferings, and reproves

Matthew 16:28 — private houses; the people that had been converted to God meeting together in some one dwelling-house of a fellow-convert, more convenient and capacious than the rest; hence the Church that was in the house of Aquila and Priscilla, Romans 16:3; Romans 16:5, and 1 Corinthians 16:19, and the Church that was in the house of Nymphas, Colossians 4:15. Now, as these houses were dedicated to the worship of God, each was termed κυριου οικος kuriou oikos, the house of the Lord; which word, in process of time,

Matthew 28:19 — was first to be preached to Judea, Samaria, and Galilee."II. He commands them to baptize in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; but among the Jews, they baptized only in the name of Jesus. See Acts 2:38; Acts 8:16; Acts 19:5. For this reason, that thus the baptizers might assert, and the baptized confess, Jesus to be the true Messias; which was chiefly controverted by the Jews. Of the same nature is that apostolic blessing, Grace and peace from God the Father, and from

Luke 14:34 — Verse Luke 14:34. Salt is good — Matthew 5:13, and Mark 9:50.ON the subject referred to this place from Luke 14:23, Compel them to come in, which has been adduced to favour religious persecution, I find the following sensible and just observations in Dr. Dodd's notes."1st. Persecution for conscience'

Acts 28:1 — the fire, and seizes on Paul's hand, 3. The people, seeing this, suppose him to be a murderer, and thus pursued by Divine vengeance, 4. Having shook it off his hand, without receiving any damage, they change their minds, and suppose him to be a god, 5, 6. Publius, the governor of the island, receives them courteously, and Paul miraculously heals his father, who was ill of a fever, c., 7, 8. He heals several others also, who honour them much, and give them presents, 9, 10. After three months' stay,

Romans 1:1 — THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE ROMANS. -Year of the Constantinopolitan AEra of the World, 5566. -Year of the Alexandrian AEra of the World; 5560. -Year of the Antiochian AEra of the World, 5550. -Year of the Julian Period, 4768. -Year of the Usherian AEra of the World, 4062. -Year of the two hundred and ninth Olympiad, 2. -Year from the building

Romans 13:14 — light of a glorious day about to shine forth on them.4. He calls those to awake who were in a stupid, senseless state concerning all spiritual and moral good; and those who were employed in the vilest practices that could debase and degrade mankind.5. He orders them to cast off the works of darkness, and put on the armour οπλα, the habiliments of light-of righteousness: to cease to do evil; to learn to do well. Here is an allusion to laying aside their night clothes, and putting on their day clothes.6.

1 Corinthians 13:3 — bounty thus freely given.And though I give my body to be burned — ινακαυθησομαι. Mr. Wakefield renders this clause thus:1. And though I give up my body so as to have cause of boasting: in vindication of which he, first, refers to Daniel 3:28; Acts 15:26; Romans 8:32; Philippians 1:20.2. He says that there is no such word as καυθησωμαι.3. That καυχησωμαι, that I may boast, is the reading of the AEthiopic and Coptic, and he might have added of the Codex Alexandrinus; several Greek and Latin MSS. referred

Joshua 10:12 — the common centre of gravity in the planetary system, which centre of gravity is included within his own surface; and in all other respects I consider him to be at rest in the system.4. I consider the earth, not only as revolving round the sun in 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 48 seconds, but as revolving round its own axis, and making this revolution in 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds; that in the course of 24 hours complete, every part of its surface is alternately turned to the sun; that

Joshua 8:1 — the law of Moses, 30-32. The elders, officers, and judges, stand on each side of the ark, one half over against Mount Gerizim, and the other against Mount Ebal, and read all the blessings and curses of the law, according to the command of Moses, 33-35. NOTES ON CHAP. VIIIVerse Joshua 8:1. Fear not — The iniquity being now purged away, because of which God had turned his hand against Israel, there was now no cause to dread any other disaster, and therefore Joshua is ordered to take courage.Take

2 Timothy 4:22 — the Ephesians, was written from Rome when Paul was brought the second time before Nero Caesar. - COMMON GREEK TEXT.There are other slighter differences in the MSS., but they are unworthy of note.That the epistle was written from Rome, about the year 65 or 66, and a little before St. Paul's martyrdom, is the general opinion of learned men. See the preface.The reader has already been apprized that this is most probably the last epistle the apostle ever wrote; and it is impossible to see him in a more

Hebrews 9:28 — llevar a ambos a su gloria eterna. Esto es la salvación, y lo más alto de lo que es capaz el ser humano. Amén. ¡Aún así, ven Señor Jesús! ¡Aleluya! 1. En las notas precedentes he dado mis razones para disentir de nuestra traducción de los versículos 15, 16 y 17. Muchos hombres eruditos son de la misma opinión; pero no he encontrado a nadie que parezca haber tratado el conjunto de una manera más satisfactoria que el Dr. Macknight, y para la edificación de mis lectores voy a adjuntar aquí la sustancia